Sure, season 24 of Dancing with the Stars still has some celebs who are going to really rely on those viewer votes, but the former Glee star and professional dancer is not as far ahead of the pack as we once thought (or ahead at all!). She actually has some serious competition out there on that dance floor, and tied for third place on night one.

And that's a damn good thing, because we were worried about a repeat of last season, when none of the other contestants could even try to catch the powerhouse that was Laurie Hernandez.

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This season, Hernandez' teammate (and the most decorated American female gymnast of all time) Simone Biles is an obvious frontrunner, but so is Fifth Harmony member Normani Kordei, and Olympic figure skating legend Nancy Kerrigan has an up as well (and not just because everybody loves Nancy Kerrigan).

And then, of course, there's Flamenco expert Charo, and puss-patter Erika Jayneboth of whom have at least some kind of dance/performance experience. We're simply not worried at all about the women.

And actually, most of the guys aren't bad either. In fact, we might be ready to say this is the most talented season in years, if not ever. Nick Viall has some serious moves, and baseball player David Ross and football player Rashad Jennings both killed it.

This could seriously be anybody's season, and that's when this show is at its most fun. Everybody's good! Everybody's fun! We're having fun!

Tonight, we decided to hand out some awards based on everyone's first performances.

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The "Off on the Right Foot" Award: Normani Kordei and Val Chmerkovskiy (27/40)

From what we could tell, Normani's performance was just as good as Heather's, Nancy's, and David's, if not better. She should have at least tied with them, but scores always tend to get better and more lenient throughout the night.

Might not have been the best idea for Kattan to go Night at the Roxbury on night one (especially since it requires specific neck moves, and he once broke his neck) with "What Is Love," but then again, his scores (he got three 4s!) indicated he probably won't make it past night one anyway.

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Cowboy Bonner Bolton is incredibly good at cowboy clothing and cowboy music and cowboy dancing (AKA holding your belt and aggressively presenting your pelvis), as we learned tonight. Can he do anything else? The other moves he attempted say no, but we'll have to see when/if he has to perform with no cowboy hats in sight.

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The "Dancing Is Irrelevant, We Must Protect Her At All Costs" Award: Charo and Keo Motsepe (21/40)

Charo is exactly the vessel of perfect chaos that Dancing with the Stars has always needed. She is perfect.

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Fresh off his reign as The Bachelor (it literally ended last Monday), Viall decided to remake himself as a pop star. He undid basically all of his buttons, threw caution to the wind, and danced to Bieber like a champ. It wasn't what we expected, and we didn't hate it.

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The "Duh" Award: Heather Morris and Keo Motsepe (28/40)

We are huge Brittany S. Pierce fans, and Heather was obviously a professionally dancing vision. We were also ecstatic to see that the majority of the contestants were also pretty damn good, meaning this isn't going to be the sweep we feared it would be.

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Precious angel Simone Biles is one of the best athletes ever, and her gymnast skills easily translated onto the dance floor, despite how she tried to trick us during the intro package into thinking she was going to be bad. Common sense says this is a battle between Simone and Heather, but after tonight, really anything could happen.